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College in the zone By Mary Anne Gill
The Ministry of Education wants to introduce an enrolment zone for Te Awamutu College to prevent overcrowding and cap an ever-growing roll. The plans of hundreds of students from Kio Kio, Ōtorohanga, Waitomo and Maihiihi are now up in the air as the ministry moves to exclude them from attending Te Awamutu College. The northern flight up State Highway Three in recent years has put huge pressure on Te Awamutu College’s resources. The school already operates above 85 per cent capacity and its roll is at risk of becoming overcrowded from within its Waipā boundaries. About 250 of its students are enrolled from outside its current school bus zone. Just this year three new modular classrooms opened at the college to house booming student numbers, up from 1134 five years ago, 1282 last year and 1324 on March 1 this year. That has since gone down to 1292 as senior students have left for jobs or apprenticeships. Meanwhile 30 minutes down the road, Ōtorohanga College’s roll is on the decline – from 367 in 2017 to 274 this year. The appointment of a limited statutory manager in 2018, a police probe into use of a school laptop, three principals in five years and
a run-down boarding hostel have blighted the school’s century-long reputation. Board chair Duncan Coull welcomed the opportunity to contribute to the consultation process saying he was confident things were on the
up and Ōtorohanga College would become the college of choice for the community. “Our district is poised for growth and the college wants to be part of this in the delivery of great learning outcomes for our students to
prepare them for their next chapter in life,” he said. Taranaki-King Country MP Barbara Kuriger was unaware of the ministry’s move but was supportive of an enrolment zone. “This is a good
opportunity to sit down and have a think about what we want for schools like Ōtorohanga College,” she said. Rural electorates like Taranaki-King Country could not afford to see schools
The boundaries for Te Awamutu College’s proposed zone.
run down and students leaving town to attend other secondary schools. Te Awamutu College deputy principal Wayne Carter and principal Tony Membery have previously met with the ministry and said they would like to see the enrolment scheme in place by next year. “Until then, our enrolment process will remain as it has operated previously,” said Carter. Ministry Operations and Integration hautū (leader) Sean Teddy said the proposed zone had been developed with the Te Awamutu College board. The zone considers a range of geographic, access and community factors. Once the ministry implements an enrolment scheme, all students already enrolled at the college or living inside the new enrolment scheme home zone and wanting to enrol, are guaranteed a place at the college. Students living outside the zone can apply, but their enrolment depends on out-of-zone places being available. Public consultation opened this week and runs until July 22. A community hui on July 4, is an opportunity for the school community to ask questions and raise any issues or concerns, said Teddy.
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A box of flicks… A 120-year-old toolbox has disclosed a hidden treasure of old picture posters at the Te Awamutu Menzshed. While restoring the toolbox, Richard Cato discovered a montage of old picture posters inside the lid, under the cardboard lining. They were from the Empire and Regent Theatres in Te Awamutu. By searching Papers Past, Richard established the posters are from 1937 to 1940. Chris Beal, from Wharepapa, had this old box in the back of his hayshed for years. After seeing what Menzshed were doing, he decided to see whether they could restore its original or near-to-original condition. The box came from England with Chris’s greatgrandfather, James Jemmett, in 1908 on the Union Steamship Manuka. James Jemmett purchased a small block of land at Pukeatua and became the postmaster in the village. Chris’ great-grandfather’s name and date are written on the underside of one of the internal drawers. The posters and cardboard were placed there by Chris’s grandparents. Listed on the cardboard are the contents and value as of 1949. The posters feature films shown at the two Te
Awamutu theatres, including “Shall We Dance”, featuring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The film was made in May 1937 and first shown in the Regent, Te Awamutu, in September 1938. In those days, the Regent and Empire showed pictures every night. Admission then was 1/- and 1/6d—10 and 15 cents in today’s money. The skills of the men were put to good use in
restoring the toolbox. The metalwork was removed and sandblasted. After cleaning the box inside and out, the damaged pieces were repaired by the men. They wanted to retain the vintage character of the box, so minimal sanding was carried out. Owner Chris remembers the box being dark grass green. Matching paint brought the old box back to life. The men enjoy restoring
old furniture and machines, especially as many have tales to tell. The results are very rewarding. The Te Awamutu Menzshed was established in 2016 and has been a place for men to enjoy each other’s company and have a natter over a cuppa. Men come from all walks of life with all different skills which are always put to good use. For more details go to teawamutu.co.nz
Chris Beal and Richard Cato with the restored toolbox.
On the beat Controlling the money with Ryan Fleming
In my last column about family violence I am going to talk about economic abuse. Economic abuse is simply where an abuser makes it almost impossible to leave by controlling the finances. Often this extends to coercing the victim to sign for financial documents such as loans to purchase vehicles or high value electronic consumer goods. If the payments are not made this effects the credit rating of the victim which makes it difficult to find or set up a new home or purchase vehicles. Creating circumstances that makes the victim financially dependant is
a method of control that coerces the victim to stay. Often the abuser will use traditional gender roles to ensure the victim doesn’t have their own financial capability. Preventing them from working has a number of knock-on effects. Firstly, it creates financial dependence and, secondly, it prevents the victim from forming social bonds. Most people in the workplace have at least some social contact - a person they can confide in. Preventing a partner from working is a method used to foster isolation
making it even harder to leave. All of the tactics I have explained over the last few weeks are red flags we should all be looking for in our loved one’s relationships. Often getting that victim in a quiet moment to have a talk and just ask “is everything okay?” is all they need. If you have concerns about a loved one’s relationship contact the following: Waitomo-Waipa Women’s Refuge 0800 733 843; Kainga Aroha 07 871 6506; New Zealand Police 105 or in an emergency 111
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Briefs… Intervention urged
The Zero Waste Network Aotearoa has written to Minister for the Environment David Parker requesting that he intervenes in a proposed waste incinerator in Te Awamutu. Global Contracting Solutions Limited has applied to Waipā District Council for a land use consent to build the waste-to-energy incinerator at 401 Racecourse Road in Te Awamutu.
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Fulton Hogan is carrying out kerb and channel repairs on SH3 near Ballance and Church streets in Kihikihi this week. The work is expected to be finished by tomorrow (Friday).
Complaints
Three complaints about Waipā District Council were made to the Ombudsman this year, one in relation to the use of the macron in Waipā saying it was unlawful. A couple spokesperson said council took independent legal advice and was confident its adoption was lawful. The second complaint relates to road sealing issues while the Ombudsman decided not to investigate a third complaint about a Local Government Official Information Meeting Acts (LGOIMA) request.
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Transport boost for Waipā By Mary Anne Gill
Waikato Regional Council has unveiled its draft regional public transport priorities for the next 30 years. The plan includes bringing climate change and emission reductions from a footnote to a headline and introduces greater connectivity between communities. That would include new Waipā public transport services which bypass Hamilton and link Cambridge, Te Awamutu, Pirongia and Kāwhia. At the Regional Connections committee meeting last week, director Mark Tamura described it as a “milestone” day for the plan and an opportunity to “cast our minds forward” to what public transport can look like. The plan has seven objectives and makes three significant changes to the current plan. Strategic Project lead Andrew Wilson said one of the new objectives was to deliver an integrated network of public transport services that enhanced accessibility and wellbeing. The aspiration for that is to connect every urban area to the nearest regional centre via at least one daily return service using a variety of transport options and not just buses.
It is this objective which would see a service established between Cambridge and Te Awamutu and then other transport options to nearby communities like Pirongia, Tirau, Ōtorohanga and Kāwhia. Waipā councillor Clare St Pierre described it as a great plan saying she was pleased to see greater connectivity to communities like Pirongia and to the airport. When consultation opened, she said, it would be important to say the regional council was open to community-led initiatives so more local solutions – such as community transport or park and rides - could be crafted. She asked whether there were any plans to expand rail links to Cambridge, Te Awamutu and Ōtorohanga. Tamura said that would involve upgrading the infrastructure and was something the council was keeping an eye on. It did plan to advocate for rail track improvements between Auckland, Hamilton and Tauranga. He said Ruapehu District Council was championing a revamped passenger train service between Palmerston North and Hamilton to support the two interregional services – Te Huia between Auckland and Hamilton and The Capital Connection between Palmerston North and Wellington.
Town told: give it time By Benjamin Wilson
Matariki celebrations
Waipā District Council is commemorating Matariki with a new set of themed street flags displayed throughout Te Awamutu and Cambridge. The flag, designed by Te Awamutu Museum exhibitions coordinator Henriata Nicholas, features the star cluster with a tāniko overlay and the text ‘Matariki’. Te Awamutu Museum will run a month of free, interactive Matariki activities including ‘Add your star to our Matariki Wall’ and ‘Find the Star Trail’. Waipā District Libraries is working directly with local schools to deliver this year’s Matariki programming with guest speaker Te Aroha Tauroa.
Thieves and Covid have contributed to delays in getting Kihikihi’s clock repairs.
It could be another two months before the Kihikihi War Memorial Clock is tickety boo. Restoration and automation work began on the clock late last year, after Waipā District Council stopped winding the clock in 2017 due to safety concerns. The bulk of the restoration work was recently completed, and the clock has been operating for several weeks. But as pointed out by numerous Kihikihi residents online, it still doesn’t tell the correct time. Council told The News that this is because the amount of weight used to control the clock’s time has still to be calibrated. John Miles, the council’s manager of property projects, says this calibration work is complicated. He said it could take up to two months to complete, and will require three to four more visits from Pilbrows
Watchmakers and Clock Restorations, the specialists who are responsible for the restoration work. “People can be reassured this complicated work is well underway but we’re asking people to be patient for just a bit longer,” he said. Pilbrows also maintain the Cambridge Town Clock and are one of few specialists qualified to work on the Kihikihi clock, which was built in 1881. Miles said it was always known that multiple visits would be required to get the clock’s timing right. The shipping of specialist parts needed for the restoration were delayed due to covid – and then tools were stolen from Pilbrows earlier in the year. The council allowed $70,000 for the restoration work, and despite the delays, they expect the final cost to be close to that. Miles said that the clock’s chime will also be reconnected within the next two months, but only once the chime’s nighttime shut-off electronics are complete.
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Top role for our Shelley By Benjamin Wilson
A Te Awamutu-born leader is about to take the helm of one of New Zealand’s largest nongovernment organisations (NGO). Shelley Campbell, 55, who affiliates to Ngāti Hine and Ngāpuhi, is one of Waipā’s top achievers. Her upcoming role with the Wise Group will be her fourth chief executive position. Previously she was chief executive of Waikato Primary Health and the Sir Peter Blake Trust, and she is the current chief executive of the Waikato/Bay of Plenty Cancer Society. During her time working at the Sir Peter Blake Trust, Campbell lived on Waiheke Island, away from her hometown. “Sometimes you go into places like Auckland, and you do feel like a bit of an outsider, but you just have to quickly get really comfortable with who you are and the value that you add,” she said. “One of the things that I have come to realise, is it is not about where you’re from or what school you went to … as long as you are comfortable with who you are.”
She takes up her new role with the Wise Group next month. Campbell, who began her career as a social worker, says she never aspired to become a chief executive, but her passion for the health sector and its leadership opportunities led her to take up various executive positions. “I do really care about health; I feel like we can’t sit back and complain about our health services if we are not prepared to get in and do our bit to try and improve them,” she said. “What I do is just encourage ordinary people to be the best version of them, and to contribute what they can. We need all of us to use our leadership potential in order for this country to succeed, particularly in the health services.” Her passion for people, the health sector, and the growing of leaders are reflected by the Wise Group. It is an NGO made up of a number of companies dedicated to social welfare, mental health, and the developing of opportunities. She is to replace the joint chief executives Jacqui Graham and Julie Nelson. “It is not like it is an organisation that needs to
Shelley Campbell starts her new role of chief executive at the Wise Group next month.
be fixed. It is already an amazing organisation,” said Campbell. New Zealand has 20 district health boards, but on July 1, these will become Health NZ, a single health body, which aims to simplify the delivery of health services. At the same time a new Ministry for Disabled People will take effect. Campbell, who worked on the health reform designs
as part of a national panel, is looking forward to seeing Wise Group through its transition. “The challenge really is, how do you work through the people and leaders, to transition it through these new health reforms to be in a better place? “I love working with people, the building of teams, the building of leadership in people, I am
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Mayor given backing By Mary Anne Gill
Another Waipā District councillor has ruled out a tilt at the mayoralty but has confirmed he will stand for council. Roger Gordon, who is in his first term on the council after a stint on the Cambridge Community Board, is backing incumbent Jim Mylchreest for a fourth term as mayor. Mylchreest revealed exclusively to The News in August last year he would stand again despite a health scare. He had a stroke earlier in the year and spent a night in Waikato Hospital’s stroke unit. “I believe Jim is the best person to lead us through for the next immediate period with so many reforms being proposed,” Gordon said. Gordon is the second councillor in a month to back Mylchreest. Hazel Barnes said Mylchreest is honest, knows everybody and is very fair. • Are you or someone you know thinking of standing for mayor? Let us know editor@goodlocal.nz
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contribute to our community. That might look like getting out bed earlier to help others, it may include bearing the load of another who is not feeling well. Consider the challenge that your life is a message of hope to others who may need a helping hand out of their despair. This is certainly how I view the mission of a community of faith. A church should not be a club that just takes care of its members. The church should be a missional organisation that looks outside of itself to serve others with the same passion that Jesus demonstrated. I encourage Zion people to be always on the lookout for others who need support. We all need to take responsibility to reach out, be involved, and to make a difference. Our human nature is inherently selfish and driven by our desire to satisfy our needs. To this end, we often avoid looking toward others to meet their needs. Jesus said, “I am the Light of the World. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but have the light of life”. The allegory used by the Lord in this verse speaks of the light of His Truth, the light of His Word, the light of eternal Life. Those who perceive the true Light will never walk in spiritual darkness. To make a difference in darkness we need His light inside of us.
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Thieves’ outside job Ngā Roto flooded By Benjamin Wilson
Kihikihi residents and business owners have been targeted by thieves who rip external gas water heaters from outside walls. They took three Rinnai Infinity external heaters from different sites on Saturday night. “They are just gutting everything off the wall and are pretty much taking everything,” said Neal Savage, the owner of Waipā Gas and Plumbing. “There just seems to be more and more of it happening.” Victims have shared their stories online. For some it isn’t the first time that is has happened to them. Units from the Kihikihi Domain were taken three weeks ago. They were replaced by council and stolen again last weekend. “Thanks to these idiots our rugby players and visiting teams have to have cold showers in this freezing weather,” Seline Heke of the Kihikihi Rugby Sports Club posted on Facebook. Lisa Couling, who owns Pets on Kihikihi, had one of her units stolen as well. She has a second unit, which has been uninstalled out of fear of it being stolen too. Couling said it will not be reinstalled until she can find a way to better secure it. Savage says the most common unit, the Rinnai Infinity A26, costs about $1500. “We are pretty sure we have seen some stolen ones on Facebook Market Place, with the missing brackets and everything off them. ‘Obviously if somebody comes across a unit that has no brackets on it, you know it is stolen.” He believes that cordless power tools have made things easy for the burglars. “I don’t know how you can stop them. If they want them, they’ll take them. It doesn’t seem to matter what you do. As far as securing them, you can buy brackets, but they would only stop them for a couple of seconds.”
Savage said that there is a shortage of the units in the country, and he believes thieves could be stealing them to order. He estimates that amount of copper in each unit would only be worth $50 if they were scraped. “At the end of the day if people don’t buy the second-hand units, then there will be no demand and no cause for them to pinch them really.” During installation, which typically costs upward of $3000, Waipā Gas and Plumbing record the serial numbers of the units. Savage recommends that owners also record the serial numbers of their units, so that they can be given to police in the event of a crime. Rinnai declined to comment on burglaries, stating that it is a police matter and that Rinnai do not install the units themselves. The Te Awamutu Police are aware that the units are a target of thieves and are investigating the matter further.
Heavy rain caused Lake Ngā Roto and its surroundings to flood.
By Benjamin Wilson
This is what pet store owner Lisa Couling woke to on Sunday morning.
Heavy rainfall has warped the boardwalk that surrounds Lake Ngā Roto, resulting in a decision to close it. The lake and its surrounding areas were flooded by a significant storm last weekend that triggered a severe weather warning. Parts of the lake’s gravel track were submerged by the flood, and its wooden boardwalk is now significantly angled and uneven. Council staff inspected the lake’s track and boardwalk on Tuesday and deemed it to be unsafe.
They tried to install a temporary fence and signage on the same day, to advise visitors to turn back. Due to staffing issues, they were not able to complete this until Wednesday morning. Because of the lake’s fluctuating water levels, there are permanent signs that encourages visitors to be careful when walking on its boardwalk, in the event it does become unstable. Last weekend’s flood was the highest that council had seen in some time, The News was told. The council plans to reassess the boardwalk on Monday.
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Kaipaki’s Elwyn steps down By Viv Posselt
Waipā stalwart Elwyn Bradley will leave a legacy of community service in her wake when she retires as Kaipaki Hall secretary/ treasurer on June 29. She been hall secretary for 46 years, and for about three years before that she was busy on the social committee helping organise events. She was also secretary of the Kaipaki Athletic Club before she married and was secretary of the Kaipaki Ladies Guild for many years. Elwyn held the same position in the Kaipaki Cricket Club for over a decade while her husband of more than 60 years, Ray Bradley, was chairman. She has judged countless lambs for local primary schools and been involved in numerous A & P Shows. “The last thing I did was as champion judge for A & P Shows,” she said. With all that service has come a slew of awards. There was a Certificate of Appreciation from the Waipā District Council (WDC) in August 2005, awarded by then Mayor Alan Livingston in recognition of her ‘valuable and significant’ voluntary service, and another WDC Pirongia
Elwyn Bradley spent 46 years as the community’s hall secretary.
Community Award for her contribution to Kaipaki. Life membership was conferred on Elwyn in 1990 by the Kaipaki Ladies Church Guild, and by the Kaipaki Settlers Hall Association, the latter given for her ‘outstanding service’ to the local community. Elwyn and Ray have been in lockstep right from the start. Elwyn was born
and grew up in the area, attending Ōhaupō, School at primary level. She was a Kite by birth who grew up on a family farm which she later discovered backed on to the one she and Ray purchased. They met when Ray, a Hawke’s Bay lad, came to visit a cousin when Elwyn was still at Hamilton Girls’ High School. Once they wed and had a few
youngsters in tow, they bought their 89.9 ha farm. It was ‘an old wreck of a place’ said Ray, much of it untouched, full of tea tree and blackberry. Hard years were spent knocking the farm into shape and raising four children, yet they both managed to live a full community life. Ray was on the Kaipaki Hall
Committee for 35 years and was involved in various sporting clubs as well as Harness Racing Waikato. The latter acknowledged his ‘achievements and dedication’ with an award. The hall committee was more active then than now. Dances were held, other functions and meetings plentiful, Sunday school romps and concerts and midwinter Christmases started by Elwyn, always with Santa’s arrival locked in. In 2011, management of the hall switched to a Board. Elwyn remained involved but said it became ‘more of a business’. Now, she said, it’s time for someone else to take over. “I’ve tried to resign a few times, but never quite got there. This time, I had to make a firm decision because of my health. It’s the right time now.” Her father and brother were on the hall committee too. One childhood memory held dear is of her going to the hall with her mother to fold bandages for the war effort. Family has filled her life. They lost one of their four in recent years, but have 13 grandchildren and 15 greatgrandchildren, with another on the way.
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Flak over dog talk By Mary Anne Gill
A call from the Waipā District Council for community feedback on dog control has been met with howls of criticism Waipā District Council said it wanted to listen to the community to get its thoughts around dog policies. Dog lovers got the wrong end of the stick when the council opened comments on its Dog Control Policy and Bylaw review. That review suggests dogs be kept on a leash at Te Awamutu’s Memorial Park and Cambridge’s Lake Te Koo Utu. Another proposal is to prohibit dogs from going onto Kakepuku Maunga. A public webinar will be held on Tuesday. Participants have been asked to register by email. Writers on social media mused that “bloody council have nothing better to do,” and one proposed a protest. Waipā District Growth and Regulatory group manager Wayne Allan said council had not made any decisions, it was just trying to gauge public opinion.
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Kuriger’s climate warning National’s Agriculture spokesperson Barbara Kuriger has warned of dire consequences if the food and fibre industry cannot get a fair and workable solution in the climate space. She has tagged the government-primary sector partnership He Waka Eke Noa as a chance to take control in the climate space. While New Zealand agriculture was at the front of the global pack according to 2021’s Net Zero Readiness Index, to stay there, the country had to look to science to help reduce methane and further develop the carbon sequestration of our soils. The Taranaki-King Country MP has just returned from a parliamentary trip to Europe and warned any transition must be fair and workable – because there were overseas examples where doing it by decree had gone horribly wrong. “None more so than in Sri Lanka, where the government ruling that all farmers (tea, rubber, coconut, rice) go organic was a disaster, causing an economic and humanitarian crisis.” He Waka Eke Noa’s recommendations report are regarded in the agricultural industry as a better solution to pricing agriculture emissions for the farming sector. “National will be engaging with interest in the process throughout the next six months,” Kuriger said. “Despite a pandemic, disruption to global supply chains, rapidly rising inflation, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a lack of RSE (Recognised Seasonal Employer) workers, our food and fibre exports have outperformed expectations. In fact, by June 30, they will have brought in $52.2 billion in revenue. Of her trip to Europe she noted “Zoom is a wonderful invention, but nothing can beat sitting at a table face-to-face with farming representatives to discover areas of collaboration and where we differ.” Food and energy security were to the fore, given Ukraine is Europe’s second-largest supplier of corn and wheat to the European Union, as well as countries in Asia and Africa.
The delegation was led by outgoing Speaker Trevor Mallard and National MP Judith Collins and was designed to help smooth the path for New Zealand’s trade deal with the European Union. The trip took in sites where New Zealanders fought in the two world wars and there
were visits to Crete, Athens, Rome, Warsaw, Brussels and Dublin. Parliamentary trips, where non-executive MPs travel representing Parliament and not the government, have been frowned upon in the past for the perception they are cushy taxpayer-funded perks for MPs.
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What should monetary policy be targeting? The National Party has announced it would return to having price stability as the single target of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s monetary policy. The Labour Government, supported by the New Zealand Treasury, altered the Reserve Bank’s targets in 2018 to both inflation and ‘maximum sustainable employment’. Two major changes were introduced for our monetary policy in the late 1980s. Policy began to be focused on price stability rather than the previous multiple targets. The target definition and level were decided by the Government and specified in a contract between the Minister of Finance and the Governor. The Reserve Bank was given operational independence to implement monetary policy to achieve this goal. New Zealand wasn’t the first country to adopt a single price stability target – the German Bundesbank was already doing it. But New Zealand was the first country to put this approach into its Central Bank Law. Over the next decade, most other countries followed, and it remained the main global approach to monetary policy for the next 20 years. This also happens to have been a 20year period when global inflation fell to a low level – and stayed there. Monetary policy can’t claim all the credit for this favourable inflation outcome. Some say it was mainly due to technological change and the emergence of China as a manufacturer and exporter of almost everything. This approach was also a recognition by Central Banks that they weren’t the masters of everything – they didn’t have the policy tools to achieve most of the other policy goals. In the last decade they forgot this important lesson and again started thinking that they
could cure every economic problem. The first changes were in reaction to the global financial crisis. Dealing with this crisis was given priority over containing inflation. Most Central Banks created enormous amounts of liquidity and drastically lowered their policy interest rates. Recent changes have been in response to a fear of recessions appearing. Central Banks lowered their policy interest rates even further into unprecedented territory. Over the last two years, inflation has re-emerged and the dilemma has been revealed for all to see. Interest rate levels are too low to contain inflation but raising them quickly will cause another financial stability crisis. The National Party proposal to return monetary policy settings to the way they were through the 20-year period of low inflation would be a good thing. Both inflation and ‘maximum sustainable employment’ are above the Reserve Bank targets. That hasn’t always been the case and won’t always be the case in the future. It is when the two targets diverge that the single focus becomes relevant. With dual targets, the Reserve Bank has to choose between inflation and employment. This choice is a political one. If there was a single price stability target but the Government wanted monetary policy to put less pressure on employment, the appropriate mechanism is for the inflation target specified in the contract between the Minister and the Governor to be eased. Everyone could then see what the tradeoff is and that it had been made by the Government. It should not be being made by a Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee.
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Bean there – doing that By Mary Anne Gill
Two mobile baristas are using their coffee-making skills from quite different platforms. Miriam Ellis parks her custom-made cycle coffee cart in Payne Park outside Resthaven in Cambridge while Te Awamutu’s Rebecca Petch plies her trade from inside a renovated caravan in the old Bunnings building carpark not far away. Waipā District Council allocated Ellis the space for her Cycle Coffee Company cart alongside the Hamilton Road Cycleway. “I guess they figured it was appropriate to have me by the cycleway,” said Ellis, who was previously a learning assistant and university lecturer before a mountain bike accident in November 2020 left her with a brain injury. She and son Sidney moved to Cambridge last year and Ellis considered what next. She has a lifetime love of coffee so decided to retrain and did a barista ticket at Wintec setting up last year at the western entrance to Cambridge where cyclists, Resthaven residents and passing motorists have come to look forward to her pithy blackboard statements. Like last week’s “Tough times don’t last, tough people do!” which sums up Ellis’s ongoing recovery. Meanwhile Petch, who was selected in the New Zealand Commonwealth Games cycling team last week, is making coffee to support her goal to compete in the Kiwi BMX team at the Paris Olympics in 2024. The cyclist has the help of her best
Sherwood Forestry arborist Joseph Sturdy stops off for a coffee from Rebecca Petch, centre, and fellow Kiwi and Te Awamutu team BMXer Baylee Luttrell.
friend, fellow New Zealand BMXer Baylee Luttrell. Both are from Te Awamutu. “I love making coffee and everything that comes with it, so I thought ‘why not do something I enjoy’. Long story short, Little Petchy was born,” said Petch. Little Petchy is a 1961 Gypsy caravan she bought in Ōtorohanga, gutted back to its bones and renovated it to become a mobile coffee place. The renovation included installing a rimu bench so when she is hired to provide coffees at weddings, Little Petchy looks the part. Petch was selected for the Tokyo
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The Ministry of Education has identified that Te The Ministry of Education has identified th Awamutu College is overcrowded and has given the given the school notice of this. After consultation with the board, we haveschool developed a proposed enrolment scheme for Te board notice of this.board Awamutu College under section 72 of the Education and Training Act 2020. After consultation with the board, we have After consultation with the board, we have developed a proposed scheme As part of this process we are consulting with the school’s communityenrolment and with people livingfor in Te Custom design Awamutu College under section 72 of the the area for which the school is a reasonably convenient school. and superior Awamutu College under section 72 of the Education craftsmanship for Training Act 2020. The enrolment scheme could affect which and school a student be entitled to enrol in, are or school your dream home! As part will of this process we consulting w transport entitlements. As part of this process we are consulting with the the area for which the school is a reasonab Aluminium school’s th community and with people living in the We will be holding a consultation meeting on the 4 of July 2022 at 7pm, in the Te Awamutu Joinery area for which schoolfrom is athe reasonably convenient College staff room, to provide further information and gatherthe feedback wider The enrolment scheme could affect which Kitchens community. school. transport entitlements. Interior Doors The enrolment scheme affectCollege which school If you have any comments about the proposed enrolment scheme for could Te Awamutu that you would like to be included in the final report about proposal, to please forward a student will this be entitled enrol in, or them school We will be 92 Bruce Berquist Drive Te to Awamutu nd holding a consultation meeting Waikato.EnrolmentSchemes@education.govt.nz byentitlements. the 22 of July 2022. transport P 07 871 6188 | www.ntjoinery.co.nz College staff room, to provide further inform We willcommunity. holding A copy of the proposed scheme can be obtained bybe email from a consultation meeting on the Waikato.EnrolmentSchemes@education.govt.nz or viewed at at 7pm, in the Te Awamutu College 4th of July 2022 PLUMBING https://consultation.education.govt.nz/education/te-awamutu-es. staff room, to provide further information and If you have any comments about the propo gather feedback from the wider community. that you would like to be included in the fin If you have any comments about the proposed to Waikato.EnrolmentSchemes@education enrolment scheme for Te Awamutu College that you would like to be included in the final report about • Bathroom Renovations A copy of the proposed scheme can be ob this proposal, please forward them to • Gas Hot Water Waikato.EnrolmentSchemes@education.g Waikato.EnrolmentSchemes@education.govt.nz • Repairs, Service, https://consultation.education.govt.nz/educ by the 22nd of July 2022. Installation A copy of the proposed scheme can be obtained by email from 0800 PRATTS Waikato.EnrolmentSchemes@education.govt.nz or viewed at AVAILABLE FROM: 10 Albert Street, Cambridge https://consultation.education.govt.nz/education/te07 827 5400 | cambridge@pratts.co.nz | www.pratts.co.nz awamutu-es. given the school board notice of this.
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